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A Picturography of 
Madison Cawein 


A Reprint 

Of the First Chapter of 

THE STORY OF A POET: MADISON CAWEIN 

BY 

Otto A. Rothert ^ 

Secretary of The Filson Club 


JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY 

Incorporated 

Louisville, Kentucky 

1921 



Copyright, 1921 
By OTTO A. ROTHERT 




/ 

J 

MAY 28 1921 


©CI.A6171 





There are fairies; verily; 
Verily; 

For the old owl in the tree , 
Hollow tree , 

He who maketh melody 
For them tripping merrily, 
Told it me. 

There are fairies; verily, 
There are fairies. 



I 

A PICTUROGRAPHY OF MADISON CAWEIN 

Madison Cawein as seen through sixty-three half-tone reproduc- 
tions of photographs, paintings and documents bearing on his life and 
works, which, with their explanatory texts, present a brief biography 
of the poet. 

List of Pictures 

Page 

Madison Cawein — Alberts, 1914 3 

Dr. William Cawein — about 1865 4 

Mrs. William Cawein — about 1865 5 

The Herancour Coat of Arms 6 

Site of Madison Cawein’s Birthplace 7 

South Fork of Harrod’s Creek 8 

The Old Stone Milk House, Rock Springs 9 

The Cawein Cottage on the Indiana Knobs 10 

View from the Cawein Cottage 1 1 

Madison Cawein and his Brothers — about 1881 12 

Madison, Charles and Fred Cawein — about 1884 13 

Madison Cawein — 1885 14 

Madison Cawein — 1887 15 

Commencement Program — second page 16 

Commencement Program — third page 17 

Diploma Received by Madison Cawein 18 

Louisville Male High School Building 19 

The Cawein Residence, High Avenue 20 

The Cawein Residence, Market Street 21 

The Newmarket Pool Room 22 

Publishing House of John P. Morton & Company 23 

The Babbit Home — Fred W. Cawein 24 

Ruins of Babbit’s Mill — Wm. C. Cawein 25 

A Beech Grove, near Brownsboro 26 

An Old Home, near Brownsboro 27 


1 


Madison C aw e in 

Page 

A Glimpse of the Indiana Knobs 28 

Madison Cawein — about 1893 29 

An Old Barn, near Jeffersontown — Fred W. Cawein 30 

Madison Cawein — 1900 31 

Madison Cawein in the Woods — 1902 32 

Frog Pond, near Kenwood Hill. 33 

The Cawein Walk, Iroquois Park 34 

The Bowl, Iroquois Park 35 

The Enchanted Tree — Plaschke 36 

The Gossamer Thread — Alberts 37 

Bluets and Springtime in Iroquois Park — Patty Thum 38 

Central Park and St. Paul’s Church — Patty Thum 39 

The Announcement of Cawein’s Wedding 40 

Madison Cawein’s Residence, Burnett Avenue 41 

Mrs. Madison Cawein and Son — 1904 42 

Madison Cawein and Son — 1905 43 

Madison Cawein’s Residence, St. James Court 44 

Madison Cawein’s Library 45 

Shawnee Park and the Ohio River 46 

Cherokee Park and the Old Mill 47 

Madison Cawein — 1910 48 

Madison Cawein — 1912 49 

Madison Cawein — King, 1912 50 

Madison Cawein — Plaschke, 1912 51 

Silver Loving Cup Presented to Madison Cawein 52 

Madison Cawein, Bronze Bust — Roop, 1913 53 

The St. James Apartment House 34 

Unitarian Church and Louisville Free Public Library 55 

Madison Cawein — King, 1914 36 

Grave of Madison Cawein 37 

Death-mask of Madison Cawein — Roop, 1914 38 

Facsimile of Two Pages of a Note Book 39 

Facsimile of Unfinished Manuscript — first page 60 

Facsimile of Unfinished Manuscript — second page 62 

Facsimile of Unfinished Manuscript — third page 64 

Facsimile of Manuscript of “Proem” 66 

Facsimile of Manuscript of “Caverns” 67 

The Thirty-six Books by Madison Cawein 68 


2 



From an oil -painting by J. Bernhard Alberts, 1914 

Madison Cawein was born March 23, 1865, in Louisville, where 
he lived nearly all of his life, and where he died December 8, 1914. 

3 



Madison C aw e i n 



Dr. William Cawein was thirty-eight years old when his son 
Madison, the poet, was born. Dr. Cawein was a practical Herbalist. 


4 


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A Picturography 



From, a daguerreotype, about 1865 




Mrs. 

Madison, 


William Cawein was 
the poet, was born. 


twenty-six years old when her son 
She was interested in Spiritualism. 


o 


Madison C awe i n 



From a sketch 


The Herancour coat of arms. Dr. William Cawein was a de- 
scendant of Jean de Herancour who left France in 1685 for Miihlhofen, 
near the Rhine, Germany. There the poet’s father was born in 1827. 


6 


A P ictur o gr aphy 



From a 'photograph by Hesse , 1920 


Madison Cawein was born in Louisville in a house that stood 
opposite the Court House, and near Fifth Street. On its site now 
stands a brick building three stories high with a width of four windows. 


7 




Mad ison Cawe in 



From a photograph by Fred W. Cawein, 1894 


When Cawein was nine years of age his parents moved to Rock 
Springs, a resort east of Louisville, near Brownsboro, on a hill over- 
looking the South Fork of Harrod’s Creek. Many years later the poet 
said, “There for the first time I came in contact with wild nature.” 


8 


A Picturograjphy 



From a photograph by Otto A. Rothert, 1920 


The Rock Springs Hotel was managed by Cawein’s father in 1874 
and 1875. Nothing remains of this once well-known resort except an 
old stone milk house from which there flows, now as then, a clear 
water spring. The poet often returned to the Rock Springs country. 


9 


Madison C awe in 



From a photograph by Otto A. Rothert, 1920 


Cawein was in his eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth years when 
his parents lived in a cottage on the Knobs, near New Albany, In- 
diana. “Here I formed my great love for nature,” said the poet in his 
comments on his youth. In 1879 the Caweins returned to Louisville. 


10 



A P i ctu r o gr a p hy 



From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


The Cawein cottage on the Knobs was in the center of a pano- 
rama of beautiful landscapes. On the Kentucky side, in the dim 
distance, can be seen Iroquois Park and Kenwood Hill. In later 
years the poet spent much time on these two hills near Louisville. 


11 


Madison C a w e i n 



From, a photograph , about 1881 

Madison Cawein and his three brothers. Madison, the young- 
v?rii*> n u ge< l , abo i lt f sl xteen, is standing with his right hand on 
William s shoulder; John is holding a hat, and back of him is Charles. 


12 



A Picturography 



From a photograph, about 1884 


Madison Cawein, and his brother Charles, and cousin Fred W. 
Cawein. Madison is standing in the center; Charles is at his right and 
Fred is sitting at his left. Fred was one of the poet’s closest friends. 


13 


Madison C aw e i n 



From, a photograph by Doerr, 1885 


Cawein as he appeared during his last year as a high school boy. 

14 


A Picturography 





Cawein was twenty-two years old when he published his first book 

15 


Madison C aw e i n 


MUSIC. 

PRAYER, 

BY REV. T. T. EATON, D. 0. 

MUSIC. 

SALUTATORY with ORATION'— Prison Reform, 

POEM — Thk Class of ’80, 

MUSIC 

ORATION— Federal Aid to Education, - - - - 

ORATION — Strikes and Strikers, ..... 
ATHENAEUM ORATION — Kkntuckv and Kentuckians, 

MUSIC. 

ORATION— Thk Growth ok Musical Taste in Louisville 

ORATION— Republicanism in Europe, 

with, VALEDICTORY, 

MUSIC 


W. K. VANDIVER. 

M. ,j. cawein. 


R. M. JARVIS. 

- R. E SILVERS. 


S. MoKEE. 


G. A. WEISS. 


M M. WALLER. 


ALUMNI ADDRESS, 


% 


Albert S. Rkandeis, Class or 1875. 


Facsimile of second page of Commencement Program 


Madison Cawein graduated from the Louisville Male High School 
on June n, 1886. As shown on the Program, he was the Class Poet. 


16 



A Picturography 



MUSIC. 

J^rescrpafior) ©[ j^ui^cs. 

Alumni Prize. 

Faculty Prize. 

English Literature Prize. 

Shakspere Prize, 

@0nferrrr)cj of Deejreos, 

BY F. C. LEBER, M. D, 

President of the Louisville School Board. 

BENEDICTION. 

MUSIC. 


CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES 


MADISON J. 0 A WE IX. 

J. MILES OLE A SON. 

JAMES B. HE DDES. 

ALE It ED 1 1 E It It HITE. 
HERMAN HOE PEN Kit. 
ROBERT MURRELL JARVIS. 


fi. McKEE LATIMER. 

SAMUEL McKEE. JR. 
CHURCHILL TALBOT SC E A ROE. 
ROBERT EL WOOD SILVERS. 
MATHEW MASON WALLER. 
CEO ROE A. WEISS. 


WILLIAM KNOX VANDIVER. 

CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY. 

GEOROE JOHN DREWRY. 




Facsimile of third page of Commencement Program 


The Class of ’86 consisted of thirteen boys of whom Madison 
Cawein was the oldest. All received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 


17 


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Greatly reduced, facsimile of Diploma 


Madison Cawein’s diploma was signed by Dr. F. C. Leber, 
President, and Wm. J. Davis, Secretary, of the Louisville School 
Board; and by R. H. Carothers, Principal and Prof, of English 
Language; E. M. Murch, Prof, of Mathematics; H. W. Eaton, Prof, 
of Physics and Chemistry; Hugo R. M. Moeller, Prof, of Modern 
Languages; Marcus B. Allmond, Prof, of Ancient Languages; R. P. 
Halleck, Prof, of Logic, Psychology and Rhetoric; W. T. St. Clair, 
Adj. Prof.; and H. A. Gooch, Adj. Prof., the members of the faculty. 


18 



A Picturography 



From, a wood cut, about 1860 


In 1886 the Louisville Male High Shool Building, Ninth and 
Chestnut streets, appeared very much as it had many years before 
Madison Cawein’s school days. When Cawein attended this school 
it represented the academic department of the University of Louisville. 


19 


Madison C aw e in 



From a photograph by Fred W. Cawein, about 1890 


Cawein lived on the south side of High Avenue, near Thirteenth 
Street, from 1882 to March 1886. The house was torn down many 
years ago. A little more than the front is shown on the extreme right. 


20 


A P i ctur o gr a jphy 



From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Cawein made his home with his parents at the south-east corner of 
Nineteenth and Market streets from 1886 until June, 1903, when he was 
married. He wrote nineteen of his books while living in this house. 


21 



Madison C aw e in 



From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


In 1887, and for about six years thereafter, Cawein was a cashier 
in the Newmarket pool room, on Third Street, where betting on horse 
races was the business transacted. The building is now occupied by 
the Caxton Printing Company, indicated by the swinging sign. 


22 





A Picturography 



From, a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Cawein’s first book, Blooms of the Berry , was printed in October, 
1887, by John P. Morton & Company, Main Street, which published 
eleven of his thirty-six volumes, and, among other books, twenty-nine 
of the Filson Club Publications — including this volume, Number 30. 


23 




Madison C awe in 



From a water color by Fred W. Cawein, 1896 


During his high school years, and for many years thereafter, 
Cawein often returned to the Brownsboro country where he was the 
guest of the Babbits, whose old farm and home are near Rock Springs. 


24 



A P i ctu r o gr a jp hy 



From a water color by Wm. C. Cawein, 1893 


In 1914, Cawein wrote: ‘The old water mill [Babbit’s Mill] in the 
Valley of Rock Springs has played an important part in my poems 
of this locality, which I have celebrated in verse now for thirty years.” 


25 


Madison C aw e in 



From a photograph by Fred W. Cawein, 1894 


Sometimes Cawein wandered alone through the beech groves, 
over the fields, and along the streams in the Brownsboro country, 
and sometimes he was accompanied by the Babbits and other friends. 


26 




A P icturo graphy 



From a photograph by Fred W . Cawein, 1894 


This picturesque old home near Brownsboro, and many other 
old homes and human haunts elsewhere, appealed to Cawein no less 
than did the forests and fields and the hills and the hollows. 


27 



Madison C aw e in 



From a 'photograph by Hesse , 1920 


Cawein made many pilgrimages to the Indiana Knobs, near New 
Albany, where he had spent three years of his boyhood on a farm. 


28 



A Picturography 



At times Cawein left Kentucky for his health or to promote his 
art; but no place appealed to him as did the country around Louisville. 


29 


Madison C aw e in 



From a water color by Fred W. Cawein, 1893 


From 1891 to 1903 the poet’s father owned a small farm near 
Jeffersontown and about twelve miles from Louisville. Its principal 
features were an orchard, a vineyard and a garden. The poet often 
visited the place, although the Caweins never used it as a home. 
The largest building was an old barn, “low, swallow-swept and gray.” 


30 


A Picturography 



From, a photograph by Fred W. Cawein, 1900 


The poet in his study. Cawein lived at Nineteenth and Market 
streets during the first seventeen years of his literary career. Shortly 
after publishing his first poems he was encouraged by the Louisville 
press. His works attracted the attention of eminent critics in the 
East and in England, and he soon gained an international reputation. 


31 


Madison C aw e i n 



From a photograph by Fred W. Cawein, 1902 


Madison Cawein spent much of his time in the heart of nature. 


32 


A P i ctu r o gr a p hy 



From a photograph hy James S. Escolt, 1912 


The Old Frog Pond near Kenwood Hill was one of Cawein’s haunts. 

33 


Madison C aw e i n 



From, a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


What is now known as the Cawein Walk was, in Cawein’s time, 
and still is, a very secluded path in Iroquois Park. Its old stone 
steps were one of the poet’s favorite “solitary places” for writing. 


v 


34 



A Picturography 



From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Lying just beyond the southern end of the Cawein Walk is The 
Bowl, one of many beautiful scenes in Iroquois Park. This large, 
natural park — also known as Jacob Park — was an Elysium for Cawein. 


35 


Madison C aw e i n 



From, an oil painting by Paul A. Plaschke, 1919 


“The Enchanted Tree/’ was painted in memory of Cawein who fre- 
quently lingered under this old sycamore on Silver Creek, near New 
Albany and the Silver Hills. For him it was another haunt of Pan. 


36 




From an oil painting by J. Bernhard Alberts, 1918 

Cawein suggested to his friend J. Bernhard Alberts, in November, 
1914: “If you’ll paint a picture showing a faery wearing a necklace 
of dewdrops on a gossamer thread, I’ll write a poem on it.” Cawein 
died a few weeks later. In 1918 the artist painted “The Gossamer 
Thread,” inspired by the Poet of the Fairies, and the Poet for Poets. 

37 


Madison C aw e i n 



From an oil painting by Patty Thum, 1915 


“Bluets and Springtime in Iroquois Park,” painted in memory of 
Cawein who often went to Iroquois Park to see the bluets in bloom. 


38 



A P i ctu r o gr a p hy 



From an oil ■painting by Patty Thum, 1908 


“Central Park and St. Paul’s Church” showing church in which 
Mr. and Mrs. Cawein were married, and park near which they lived. 


39 


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Facsimile of Wedding Announcement 


Madison Julius Cawein and Gertrude Foster McKelvey were 
married in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday morning, June 4, 1903. 


40 


A P i c tu r o g r a p hy 



Mr. and 
nue, between 


Mrs. Cawein lived on the north side of 
First and Second streets, from June, 1903, 


Burnett Ave- 
to June, 1907. 


41 




Madison C aw e in 



From a photograph by Doerr, 1904 


Mrs. Madison Cawein and son, Preston Hamilton Cawein. The 
boy — born March 18, 1904 — is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Cawein. 


42 


A P i ctu r o gr a jp hy 



From a photograph hy Doerr, 1905 


Madison Cawein and son, Preston Hamilton Cawein. After the 
death of the poet, the son’s name was changed to Madison Cawein II. 


43 


Madison C aw e in 



From, a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Mr. and Mrs. Cawein lived in a beautiful residence — center of 
picture — in St. James Court from June, 1907, to January, 1914. 
This house, owned by them, is now the property of their son. 


44 



A Piet urography 



From Book News Monthly, November, 1909 


Cawein’s private library contained about fifteen hundred 
volumes. Its bay window over the porch faced the Fountain and 
Court. Every room in the house was expressive of his artistic taste. 


45 



Madison C aw e i n 



From, a photograph by James Speed , 1912 


Cawein frequently strolled through Shawnee Park, Louisville’s 
park on the Ohio River, watching the sunset behind the Indiana 
Knobs, or the moonrise, or the river glittering to the stars. 


46 


A Picturography 



From a photograph by James S. Escott, 1912 


Among Cawein’s haunts in Cherokee Park was the ruins of 
Ward’s Old Corn Mill, on the Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek, 
where Pan and Faun, and wood and water nymphs held rendezvous. 


47 



Madison C aw e i n 



From a photograph by Steffens 



48 



A P i ctu r o gr a p hy 





From a photograph hy Cusick , 1912 



49 



Madison C aw e i n 



Cartoon by Wyncie King, Louisville Herald, March 26, 1912' 


Cawein as seen by Wyncie King when the many Louisville ad- 
mirers of the poet presented him with a Silver Loving Cup on the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of his first volume of poems. 


50 



A P i ctu r o gr a p hy 



Cartoon by Paul A. Plaschke, Louisville Evening Post, March SO, 1912 


Cawein as seen by Paul A. Plaschke when the public presen- 
tation of the Silver Loving Cup took place in the Louisville Free 
Public Library on March 25, 1912, the poet’s forty-seventh birthday. 


51 


Madison C aw e in 



The Silver Loving Cup presented to Madison Cawein, March 25, 
1912, is ten and one-half inches high and bears the following inscription : 

To Madison Cawein by the Literati of Louisville under the 
Auspices of the Louisville Literary Club. 

To Commemorate the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Publica- 
tion of his First Book, Blooms of the Berry. 

March Twenty-fifth, 1887 — 1912. 


52 


A Picturography 



The inscription on the Bronze Bust of Madison Cawein (by 
James L. Roop) presented to the Louisville Free Public Library reads: 

Madison Cawein, a Kentucky Tribute to a Kentucky Poet, 
Presented by The Louisville Literature Club, April 25, 1913. 

53 


Madison C aw e in 



From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


The Caweins, in January 1914, moved into the right hand 
apartment on the third floor of the St. James Apartment House, in 
St. James Court. There the poet died of apoplexy, December 8, 1914. 


54 


A Picturography 



From, a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Cawein was buried from the First Unitarian Church, Fourth and 
York streets. Opposite that church stands the Louisville Free Public 
Library where the poet spent many hours reading books and magazines. 


55 



Madison C aw e in 



Cartoon by Wyncie King, Louisville Herald, December 9, 191 \ 


The Louisville press devoted many columns to Cawein at the 
time of his illness and death. The Louisville Herald published this 
cartoon by Wyncie King: “In Avalon, The Fairy Isle in Fairy Seas.” 


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From a photograph by Hesse, 1920 


Cawein was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. At the 
head of his grave is that of his father, marked by the tall stone. 
At the side of his grave is that qf his wife who died on April 16, 1918. 


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Cawein filled many note-books, but as far as known, preserved 
very few. The two pages here shown were printed, after some changes 
were made, in 1906, in Nature Notes and Impressions in Prose and Verse. 


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far as is known this poem, here shown in process, was never finished. 

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Three kisses I remember 
That never come again 
That make June of December 
And hold me heart and brain 
(And of my soul remain — ) 
(With longing and with pain) 

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To love against my will, 

That into knowledge brought me 
And bade me drink my fill 
(At life’s wild running rill — ) 
(Whose passion haunts me still) 

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Upon my nuptial night 
(It bade me know of heaven 
The rapture and delight) 

The angel hosts of heaven 

Know no more of delight 
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And bade me see the white 
Of dawn that on that height 
Still holds me with its light. 

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No kiss shall follow after 

To make my senses swim. 


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(Its joy can never dim — 

With joy that cannot dim — 
Young as the new moon’s rim — 
Gold as the new moon’s rim — 
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Born of a moment’s whim — 

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The thirty-six books by Madison Cawein contain about 2700 
poems; about 1500 are distinct originals and about 1200 are either 
unchanged reprints or changed versions. His original versions com- 
prise the greater part of twenty-five books. The Poems of Madison 
Cawein , in five large volumes, is a Compilation of his poems — in the 
original or in a new version — written before 1907. Six books consist 
chiefly of Selections he made from previous volumes. The Compila- 
tion and the various Selections cause many of his poems — some in the 
original, others in a changed version — to appear two or more times. 


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BOOKS BY MADISON CAWEIN 

1 Blooms Of the Berry. 202 pages 1887 

2 The Triumph of Music. 171 pages 1888 

3 Accolon of Gaul. 164 pages 1889 

4 Lyrics and Idyls. 194 pages 1890 

5 Days and Dreams. 173 pages 1891 

6 Moods and Memories. 310 pages 1892 

7 Red Leaves and Roses. 205 pages 1993 

8 Poems of Nature and Love. 21 i pages 1893 

9 Intimations of the Beautiful. 208 pages 1894 

10 The White Snake. 79 pages 1895 

1 1 Undertones. 65 pages 1896 

12 The Garden of Dreams. 123 pages 1896 

13 Shapes and Shadows. 77 pages 1898 

14 Idyllic Monologues. 106 pages 1898 

15 Myth and Romance. 85 pages 1899 

16 One Day and Another. 108 pages 1901 

17 Weeds by the Wall. 94 pages 1901 

18 Kentucky Poems. 264 pages 1902 

19 A Voice on the Wind. 73 pages 1902 

20 The Vale of Tempe. 274 pages .1905 

21 Nature Notes and Impressions. 31 i pages 1906 

22 Volume I, The Poems of Madison Cawein. 493 pages. . 1907 

23 Volume II, The Poems of Madison Cawein. 530 pages. . 1907 

24 Volume III, The Poems of Madison Cawein. 483 pages. . 1907 

25 Volume IV, The Poems of Madison Cawein. 439 pages. . 1907 

26 Volume V, The Poems of Madison Cawein. 482 pages. . 1907 

27 Ode. . . Massachusetts Bay Colony. 25 pages 1908 

28 New Poems. 248 pages 1909 

29 The Giant and the Star. 173 pages. . . 1909 

30 The Shadow Garden and Other Plays. 259 pages 1910 

31 Poems By Madison Cawein. 298 pages 1911 

32 The Poet, the Fool and the Faeries. 259 pages 1912 

33 The Republic. 98 pages 1913 

34 Minions of the Moon. 13 i pages 1913 

35 The Poet and Nature and the Morning Road. 241 pages. 1914 

36 The Cup of Comus. 96 pages 1915 








































































































































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